Improved metallic counter-brace



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common in-boots and shoes, and which so disfigures invention, the spur is attached at a point near the cenf Letters' Patent No. 82,921,

ER, 'or PREsToN; CONNECTICUT, AssIGNoR vSELF lAND .nisHUAA E..FELLows.

dated October 13, 1868.

' IIVIPROVED METALLIC COUNTER-BEACH The Schedule 'referred to in these Letters Patent and parl: of the same.

Be it known that I, J omi L. COOPER, of the town of yPreston, in the county of New London, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful article of manufacture, namely, a Metallic or GuttafPercha Counter-Brace andspur-socket for'boots and shoes; and. I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact descriptionrof the' construction and operation of the `same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in whichl Figures l and 2 Arepresent respectively a boot and shoe as they would appear if manufactured with my metallic or guttafpercha counter-brace and spur-socket attached. v y

. Figure 3 is a perpendicular. elevation, and Figure 4 is a side elevation, both showing thecounter-brace detached.. 1 r

The nature of my invention consists in combining a spur-socket with a metallic or guttafpercha brace applied to the outside of the 'counter of a bootorshoe.

I thus secure for the counter the additional stii'ening given bythe metallic or gutta-percha brace, and I have also a far more sure and rm support for the spur than can be had by any of thev ordinary means of attaching spurs now in use. p

The advantage of the brace to the. counterl is, that it prevents the running down at the heel, which is so them, and injures their wear,

This brace being rmly attached to the boot or shoe, the spur-fastening in it is not liable to slip olf, as it is where the spur. is attached with a strap. And, although there-is a large numberpf devices for attaching spursockets permanently to the heels of boots and shoes by .means of sockets sunk into the heels or screwed on to them. I am not aware of any by which, asin my tre of the heel of the wearer. In those I refer to, the spuris either .considerably below 'the werers heel or just'at the base -of it, and is therefore not so conveniently situated as in mine.

To enable others skilled in the art to make' and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it, and the manner of its application.

I make my counter-braces of any required size, and of vany kind of metal, or of gutta-pereha. rlhe counterbrace is attached to the counter of the boot or shoe by purpose in the ange ofthe counterlbrace, as shown in iig. 3, and riveted to the counter. That part of the boot called the counter is shown in iig. l, b, or iig. 2, c, though in shoes it is sometimes called the stiftenen The heel is fastened on in the usual manner when my counter-brace lis applied.- The spur, as in the gs. 3 and 4, (l and e, passes through a hole in the rear of the counter-brace, the thread of the hole correspond,-

small copper nails passing through holes made for that ing to the thread in the screw of the spur. vThe shank of the spur, where it touches the brace, lis made with combination with a counter-brace, when made and ap plied substantially as herein described.

J OBN L. COOPER. Witnesses:`

HIEAM B. CROSBY, .0. J. EILLMORE. 

